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[arethinn]

I recently finished reading Orion Foxwood's The Faery Teachings. A lot of it is quite good, and in places it resonates more with me than the RJ Stewart "Underworld" material to which it bears a lot of similarity (which surprised me a bit). But I find myself somewhat irritated by the emphasis on the natural world. Don't get me wrong; this is my own area of resonance. I agree wholeheartedly that most people nowadays do not have the connection to the Green World that they should, and that this is a wound that needs healing. But it seems to me that the sense of exclusion of cities as being important or magical is also a mistake... unless we strive to find magic in the cities, the rift between "nature" and "city" will only get deeper. They need to be knit back together with shining threads...

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[zaecus.livejournal.com]

*nod* I've been trying to figure out how I feel about the whole idea of excluding cities. I don't tend to like them myself, but as you say, they are still very much a part of things.

I think most people wind up imposing an unnecessary duality by forcing the wild and the constructed apart. It seems like there has to be a balance, but the two can achieve that balance by either working together or by opposing each other.

Don't understand why most people seem to want them to oppose each other.